
- 200 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
For decades a restorer of old homes, Connie Wanek shows us that poetry is everywhere, encountered as easily in the waterways, landscapes, and winters of Minnesota, as in the old roofs and darkened drawers of a home long uninhabited. Rival Gardens includes more than thirty unpublished poems, along with poems selected from three previous booksâall in Wanek's unmistakable voice: plainspoken and elegant, unassuming and wise, observant and original. Many of her new poems focus on the garden, beginning with the Garden of Eden. A deep feeling for family and for the losses and gains of growing into maturity mark the tone of Rival Gardens, with Wanek always attending to the telling detail and the natural world.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction by Ted Kooser
- SELECTIONS FROM "Bonfire"
- April
- Red Fox
- Abstract
- Wild Apples
- The Girl and the Horses
- Daylilies
- The Wandering Sky
- Broom
- Skim Milk
- Radish
- Radiator
- Missed Bus
- Duluth, Minnesota
- Blue Moon
- The Gelding
- Dragonfly
- Rain
- Toward Dusk
- Peonies
- Amaryllis
- Christmas Tree
- January
- Bonfire
- Ski Tracks
- SELECTIONS FROM "Hartley Field"
- The Coin Behind Your Ear
- The Ventriloquist
- Butter
- Peaches
- Red Rover
- Jump Rope
- Horses in Spring
- Summer Night
- Lemon
- Long Nights
- Postcard: Busy Clarence Town Harbor on a Mail Boat Day
- Honesty
- Black and White Photograph
- Memorial Day at the Lake
- The Midwife
- The Exchange
- Children Near the Water
- A Field of Barley
- Checkers
- So Like Her Father
- The Hammer
- Tag
- Late September
- New Snow
- Grown Children
- Heart Surgery
- All Saintsâ Day
- Christmas Fable
- After Us
- Hartley Field
- SELECTIONS FROM "On Speaking Terms"
- First Snow
- Monopoly
- Nothing
- Tracks in the Snow
- The Accordion
- Scrabble
- Directions
- Lipstick
- Everything Free
- Fishing on Isabella Lake
- Garlic
- Rags
- Lady
- Confessional Poem
- Walking Distance
- The Splits
- Buttercups
- Closest to the Sky
- Comb
- Umbrella
- Picture Yourself
- The Death of My Father
- A Sighting
- Green Tent
- Pumpkin
- A Random Gust from the North
- Musical Chairs
- A Parting
- Pecans
- Old Snow
- Pickles
- Coloring Book
- Blue Ink
- Six Months After My Fatherâs Death
- Honey
- Leftovers
- Ice Out
- New Poems
- Garter Snake
- Pollen
- Rival Gardens
- The Summerhouse
- Polygamy
- The Neighborâs Pond
- An Ordinary Crisis
- Mysterious Neighbors
- Catbird
- Root Words
- Rain Collection
- Blue Flags
- âGolden Glowâ
- Blackbirds at Dusk
- First House
- Last Star
- Part Two
- Used Book
- Ghost Town
- When I Was a Boy
- Audience
- John Q. Public
- A Collection of Near Misses
- Adaptation
- Plein Air
- The Death of the Battery
- Girdle
- Parts per Million
- Mrs. God
- Genesis, Cont.
- Day of Rest
- Business
- First Love
- Part Three
- Artificial Tears
- I Heard You Come In
- Pavement Ends
- The Shoes of the Dead
- A Last Time for Everything
- Practice
- Phoebe
- They Live with Us
- Recalled to Life
- Walleye
- Wild Asters
- Brave Rabbits
- Brave Rabbits, a Second Look
- A Marsh at Twilight
- The Second Half of the Night
- Cabbage Moth
- Garden Gloves
- Also by This Gardener
- About Connie Wanek
- Series List